William Lewis Burke

Gebundenes Buch

Matthew J. Perry

The Man, His Times, and His Legacy

Herausgeber: Burke, W Lewis; Gergel, Belinda F

Beschreibung

Burke chronicles the life and accomplishments of the attorney who led the struggle for desegregation in South Carolina, served as a primary legal advocate in the national civil rights movement, and became South Carolina's first African American U.S. District Court judge.

Autor

W. Lewis Burke is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. He is the coeditor of At Freedom's Door (University of South Carolina Press, 2000), the story of African American leaders and lawyers during Reconstruction, and the author of many articles on legal history. Burke lives in Columbia. Belinda F. Gergel is the coauthor of In Pursuit of the Tree of Life: A History of the Early Jews of Columbia, South Carolina, and the Tree of Life Congregation and articles on local history in South Carolina. A former chair of the department of history and political science at Columbia College, she also resides in Columbia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781570035340
• ISBN-10: 1570035342
• Artikelnr.: 22059234